Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-17

ing him now. have to tell you that un.
less you see and hear Christ on earth, yoI
will never see and hear Him In heaven
Lookl There he is Behold the Lamb o.
God. Can you not see him2 Then pray
to God to take the scales off your eyes
Look that way-try to look that way
His voice comes down to you this day
comes down to the blindest, to the deaf
est soul, saying: "Look unto me, all ye
ends of the earth ana be saved, for l an
God, and there is none else" Proclama
ton of
UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION
for all slaves. Proclamation of univer
sal amnesty for all rebels. Ahasuerus
gathered the Babylonish mobiles to his
tables; George I. entertained the Lords
ofEnglaud st q banquet Napoleon III. vel
coined the Car of Russia and the Sultan
of Turkey to his feast; the Emperor Of
Germany was glad to have our minister
George Bancroft, sit down with him 81
his table; but tell me,ye VINO know most Of
the worlds history, what other King evel
asked the abandoned, and the forlorn, and
the wretched, and the outcast, 10 come
and sit down beside him? O,wonderful ID.
vltation! You can take it to-day, and
stand at the head of the darkest alley in
all this city and say: "Come! Clothes
for your rags, salve for your sores, q
throne for your eternal reigning."
A Christ that talks like that, and
acts like that, and pSrdons
like that, do you wonder that Stephen
stood looking Ct Him? l hope TO spend
eternity doing the same thing. l must
see HIM must look Upou that face once
clouded with my sin, but now radiant
with my pardon. l want to touch that
hand t1Gt knocked off my shackles;
want 20 hear that voice which pronounced
my deliverance. Behold Him, little chill
dren, for if you live to three score years
and ten. you will see none SO fair. Be
hold Him, ye aged ones, for He only can
shine Though the dimness of your failing
eyesight. Behold Him, esrth; behold
Him, heaven. What moment when ali
the nations of the saved shall gather
around Christ! All faces that way! All
thrones that way gazing, gazing on
jesus.
His worth, If all the nations knew,
sure the whole earth would love Him, too.
pass on now, and look at Stephen
stoned. The world has always wanted TO
get rid OF good men. Their very life is
an assault upon wickedness. Out with
Stephen through the gates of the city.
Down with him
OVER THE PRECIPICES.
Let every man come mp and drop g
stone upon his head. But these men did
not so much Kill Stephen as they killed
themselves. Every stone rebounded
upon them. While these murderers were
tTansiXed by the scorn OF all good men,
Stephen lives in the admiration of all
Stephen stoned; but Ste
phen alive. So all good men must be
pelted. All who will live cody in Christ
Jesus must suffer persecution. It IS no
eulOgy of man to say that everybody
likes him. Show me any one who is DO
ing all his duty 10 state or church, and
will show you scores of men who utterly
abhor him.
If all men speak well of you it is be-
cause you are either laggard or dolt.
If steamer makes rapid progress
through The waves the water will boil
and foam all around it, Brave soldiers
If Jesus Christ will hear the Carbines
lick. When | sec q man with voice, and
money, and influence ell on the right side.
md some csriceture him, and some sneeT
1t him, and some deDounce him, and men
VINO pretend to be ac'uated by right mo-
ives cOnspire 10 cripple him, to cast him
,ut, to destroy him, l say: "Slephen
stoned" When [ see q man in some
treat moral or religious reform battling |
gainst grog-shopS, exposing Wickedness !
\ high places, by active means trying to
purify the church and better the worlds |
state, and if find that the newspapers !
usthematize him, and men, even good !
men, oppose him and denounce him, be- !
ause, though he does good, he does not /
10 it in their way, l say: "Stephen |
toned" The world, with infinite spite,
ook after John Frederick Oberlin, and |
Robert Moffat, and Paul, and Stephen Of
ne text. But you notice, my friends, |
hat while they assaulted him they did
lot succeed really in killing him. You
nay assault 8 good man, but you cannot
Ill him. On the day of his death, Ste
hen spoke before g few people in the
this Sabbath morning ne
ADDRESSES ALL CHRISTENDOM.
Paul the Apostle stood on Mars Hill
handful Of philosophers who
new not so much about science as
lodern school girl. To-day he talks to
Ii the millions of ChriStendom about the
yonders of justification and the glories of
John Wesley was hoWled
own by the mob to whom he preached,
nd they threw bricks at him, aud they
enounCed him, and they jostled him, and
hey spat upon him, and yet o.day, in all
Lnds, he is admitted to be The great
.ther of Methodism. Booths bullet va
ated the Presidential chair, but from
lat spot of coagulated blood on the floor
/ the box Of Ford's theater, there sprang
p the new life of nation. Stephen
toned; but Stephen alive,
Pass on now, and see Stephen in his
ying prayer. His first thought was not
ow the stones hurt his head, nor what :
ould become of his body. His first !
fought was about his spirit. "LorG
esus, receive my spirit" The murderer
.anding on the trsp-door, the black cap
eng drawn over his head before the
may grimace about the future;
ut you and have no shame in confessing
lme anxiety about where we are going
, come out. You are not all body.
here is within you soul. | see il
cam from your eyes to-day, and see it ,
radiating your countenance. Some :
mes l am abashed before an audience,
1t because 1 come under your physical
'esight, but because l realize the truth '
at l stand before so many immortal Z
oirits. The probability is that your :
ody will at last find sculpture in some I
the cemeteries that surround this city.
here is no doubt but that your obsequies
i'll be
DECENT AND RESPECTFUL, b
id you will be able TO pillow your head =
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